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Archives: Authoritarianism
Preparing for the Normalization of a Neofascist White House
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - It is 2017, and shortly the White House will be inhabited by an unscrupulous, corrupt narcissist who has shamelessly mobilized the Neo-Nazi fringe…
Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Call a Lie a Lie If Trump Says It
TeleSur | - - The paper is worried about objectivity, said WSJ editor-in-chief Gerard Baker. The Wall Street Journal would not call a lie a lie if it was told by President-elect…
Climate Scientist Enemies List: Internal Trump Memo Sparks Fears of Witch Hunt
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - Trump transition team reportedly asking for names of career employees at Department of Energy who worked on Obama's climate policies…
Life under the Junta: Deadly Explosion at Cairo’s Coptic Christian Cathedral Kills 25
TeleSur | - - The Coptic cathedral explosion has reportedly killed 25 people and injured dozens more. A crowd gathered outside Cairo city’s biggest Coptic Christian cathedral Sunday morning chanting, "Tell the…
The Last Days of Democracy?
By Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker | Foreign Policy in Focus | - - A fraudulent campaign has resulted in the election of a fraudulent president. What can be done to…
America’s Sisi: On What Has Been Lost, and What Must Be Done
David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - “When the people love you, that is the most important thing for me.” So spoke General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the onetime savior and…
Turkey: the road towards dictatorship and the west’s responsibility
By Mehmet Ugur | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - Let us stop pretending otherwise: Turkey is now under a dictatorial regime established step by step under the gaze of, and with tacit…
Save America from Trump to fix America, or, Did your Mother Drop you on Your Head?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - When I trained as a lifeguard they warned us that you have to be very careful how you approach a drowning victim flailing…
N. Dakota Judge Laughs Riot Charges against Amy Goodman out of Court
TeleSur | - - A state prosecutor had sought to charge Goodman with participating in a "riot" for filming an attack on protesters. A North Dakota judge has dismissed the "riot" charges…
Partial Police? Uniformed Texas Officers Wear Trump Hats
By TeleSur | - - A dozen police officers face "benign" discipline after they appeared with Donald Trump while sporting his “Make America Great Again” caps in uniform. More than a dozen…
“This Parrot is no More”: The 2016 Presidential Election did not Take Place
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard wrote a book in 1991 entitled The Gulf War did not Take Place . In the same way, the…
Endangering the Planet: Populist New Right opposes Climate Action as much as Immigration
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - In a year of record-setting heat on a blistered globe, with fast-warming oceans, fast-melting ice caps, and fast-rising sea levels, ratification of…
Massive Brain Drain from Turkey begins in wake of Failed Coup, Crackdowns
By Ibrahim Sirkeci | (The Conversation) | - - On July 15, a group within the Turkish military staged a coup. It failed. But since then, the Turkish government has restricted rights…
Why Turkey wants to silence its academics
By Fatma Müge Göçek | (The Conversation) | - - After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, one of the first actions of the Turkish state and government was to purge…
Purge of teachers and academics bulldozes through Turkish education
By Moritz Pieper | (The Conversation) | - - As news of the attempted military coup in Turkey unfolded, I was in Pennsylvania. Travelling in the US, I had coincidentally found myself…
WikiLeaks Release 300K Emails Related to Turkey’s ruling Party
TeleSur | - - The group leaked the documents despite being under a major cyber attack for more than 24 hours by suspected allies of the Turkish government. WikiLeaks released its first…
Turkish People Power foils attempted Coup
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The poorly planned junior officers' coup in Turkey on Friday appears to have failed as I write late Friday night, though rebel military…
The rise and fall of Turkey’s progressive opposition
By Nick Ashdown | ( OpenDemocracy) | - - Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party, the HDP roared into parliament on the back of a rainbow coalition of alienated progressives and minorities. Now, armed conflict…